Thought for the Day - The True Vine

Vines and Olive Trees, Tarragona, Joan Miró, 1919

A Thought for the Day given at a lunchtime service of Holy Communion at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Wednesday 21st May 2025 based on the text of John 15.1-8.

Sermon - Embodying the ‘good desires’ of God’s grace

Churches, New Jerusalem, Aristarkh Lentulov, 1917

A sermon given during the Sung Eucharist at St George’s Bloomsbury on Sunday 18th May 2025 (Easter 5, Year C) based on the text of Acts 11.1-19, Revelation 21.1-6 & John 13.31-35. The service was followed by the Annual Parish Meeting.

Prayers - A New Commandment

Gate with a Tower, New Jerusalem, Aristarkh Lentulov, 1917

Prayers of intercession written for  the Sung Eucharist at St George’s Bloomsbury on Sunday 18th May 2025 (Easter 5, Year C) based on the text of Acts 11.1-19, Revelation 21.1-6 & John 13.31-35. The service was followed by the Annual Parish Meeting. 

Thought for the Day - Decisions, decisions

Hugo Simberg, Tienhaarassa, 'At The Crossroads' (1896)

A Thought for the Day for Wednesday 14th May 2025 based on Acts 1.15-26

Sermon - My sheep hear my voice. I know them and they follow me.

Jorge Cocco Santángelo, The Good Shepherd, 2017

A sermon given during Sung Holy Communion at St Olave Hart Street at 11am on Sunday 11th May 2025 (Easter 4, Year C) based on readings from Acts 9.36-end and John 10.22-30. The service was followed by the Annual Parish Meeting.

Thought for the Day - Bread that Changed the World

Ilya Mashkov Still Life with Loaves of Bread, 1912

A Thought for the Day given during a lunchtime service of St Olave Hart Street given on Tuesday 6th May 2025 based on the text of John 6.30-35

VE Day 80 - Planning a Service

We are holding a special Choral Evensong at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Thursday 8th May at 6.30pm to mark the eightieth anniversary of Victory in Europe Day – the end of WW2 in Europe. Those looking for a summary of what VE Day is might find the preface of this booklet useful, prepared by the Ministry of Defence for the VE Day 70 celebrations. The text may be a useful guide for an introduction to your own order of service - and the resources below may also be of use.

Thought for the Day - The Beginning and the End

The Course of Empire: Destruction, Thomas Cole, 1836

A Thought for the Day given at a lunchtime service of Holy Communion at St Olave Hart Street on Tuesday 29th April 2025 based on the text of Mark 13.5-13

Our gospel reading today forms the start of what some call the “Little Apocalypse”. As well as recording the longest speech by Jesus in the whole of Mark’s gospel, it’s a passage that may reveal something about the people who first heard the text, whose writer the church remembers today.

Sermon - The Risen Christ in our Midst

Jesus Appears to the Disciples After the Resurrection by Imre Morocz, 2009

A sermon given during Holy Communion at St Giles-in-the-Fields at 11am on Sunday 27th April 2025, prior to the Annual Parish Meeting and based on the texts of 1 John 5.4-12 and John 20:19-23

“Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.”

Thought for the Day - The Road to Everywhere

Emmaus by Janet Brooks Gerloff, 1992

A Thought for the Day given at a lunchtime service of Holy Communion at St-Giles-in-the-Fields on Wednesday 23rd April 2025 based on the text of Luke 24.13-35.

Sermon - Seeing Salvation

Michael Cook, Noli me tangere, 2016

A homily given during Choral Evensong at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 20th April 2025 (Easter Sunday) at 6.30pm based on the text of John 20.11–23